A Short House Sit in Queen Anne

This weekend we have a short house sit in Queen Anne, a neighborhood just north of downtown Seattle. A few of the things to do near us were calling so we got out to see a few sights.

Our first stop was at Kerry park. This small park sits on the edge of a hill from which we could see most of Downtown Seattle and the sound.



With a few shots, I created a panorama so you could see the city and Puget Sound a bit more fully. Too bad the sky is so dull, but this is the way days start just now. By 1:00 or 2:00 in the afternoon, the sun breaks out and it warms up. In the mornings, I'm still wearing a jersey to stay warm as the temperature here is, by the standard of what we are used to back in Virginia, pretty cool. Morning start in the upper 50's and reach 70-ish by afternoon. Not what I'm used to calling June weather by any stretch.

We visited Mt. Pleasant Cemetery as well. While it wasn't full of amazing gravestones as some of the places in Australia and England we've visited, it did have some unusual sights. There were several of these cement tree trunks for Woodmen of the World. I can't remember ever seeing markers like these anywhere else.

As a kind of centerpiece in the cemetery, this old tree seems to be reaching out with its arms to embrace the grieving.

The grass in the cemetery is pretty brown since we've been having a drought here. We've had very little rain, even by non-Seattle standards. We're told that the summer wildfire season will be one to remember with the mountain snowpack less than 1/2 what is normally is this time of year.

On this gravestone we see that four daughters were lost in four years. It is unclear what happened to them, but we find out on the reverse side we learn that their parents outlived them all by 20-30 years.

The dead branch in this tree adds a bit of color to this general view of the cemetery.

One of the most interesting markers is adorned with a salmon. Only in the Northwest do you find such a remembrance of the departed.